Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Wednesday signed a bill that makes it a criminal offense for an adult to help a minor get an abortion without parental consent, even if the procedure to terminate the pregnancy is done out of state, formally establishing a new crime called “abortion trafficking.”
Little, a Republican, signed into law House Bill 242, which makes it a crime in Idaho for an adult to procure abortion pills for a minor without parental consent by “recruiting, harboring or transporting the pregnant minor” to terminate a pregnancy without parental permission.
“With the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe vs. Wade last summer, the right and duty to establish legal policy on abortion was finally returned to our state democratic process,” Little wrote in a letter (pdf) to Idaho lawmakers, declaring he had signed the legislation….